THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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List or other information in connection 

 with this Exhibiton, will secure it by- 

 dropping a post card to the Secretary, 

 at Toronto. 



CALIFORNIA FRUITS. 



A subscriber residing in California 

 writes to us that their fruits are ob- 

 tained from all countries. The Japan 

 plum is a dwarf tree with very large 

 fruit, dark color, peculiar flavor and 

 productive. We have no finer apricots 

 than the old Moor Park and Royal. 

 There are a good many California seed- 

 ling peaches, but Early Crawford and 

 Foster are most in demand, Susque- 

 hanna, &c. In extra early nothing 

 better than Alexander and Waterloo. 

 Our best jDlums are Pond's Seedling 

 and Victoria, very productive, Reine 

 Claude de Bavay, Purple Gage, Im- 

 perial Gage, and for canning the Yel- 

 low Egg. If you know of any cherry 

 that is superior in keeping qualities to 

 the Napoleon Bigarreau please to let me 

 know. 



PEACHES IN NEW JERSEY. I 



Julius Johnson has fifteen acres in 

 peach trees, planted twelve years ago. 

 He grows no crop in his orchard, culti- 

 vates the ground thoroughly and man- 

 ures Avith wood ashes and stable man- 

 ure. He has netted eighteen thousand 

 dollars from this orchard. W. J. Case 

 has an orchard of eleven acres, planted 

 in 1874. Since 1879 he has applied 

 annually four hundred pounds of 

 ground bone to the acre, and obtained 

 for the fruit eleven thousand three 

 hundred and sixty-eight dollars net. 

 Soil clay. S. K. Everett uses bone and 

 muriate of potash in equal quantities 

 at the rate of 350 pounds per acre. 

 Soil clay loam, cultivated without any 

 other crop. For four years past he 

 has realized $900 per acre. Tlie Coun- 

 try Gentleman is our authority, who 



gleaned the facts from the fifth annual 

 report of the New Jersey Experiment 

 Station. 



VERY HARDY FRUITS. 



The Home Farm, published at Aug- 

 usta, Maine, states that the following 

 varieties came out all right this season ; 

 having endured, during the winter, a 

 cold of thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty, 

 and once forty-two degrees below zero, 

 and on the seventh of June were mak- 

 ing a strong growth : Of Apples, they 

 are, Chai'lottenthalei-, Duchess of Old- 

 enburg, Golden White, Grand Sultan, 

 Green Crimean, St. Peter, Switzer, 

 Tetofsky, and Yellow Transparent ; 

 which all ripen in the summer and 

 fall ; and Antonouka, Ai-abka, Bog- 

 danoff, Longfield, Red and Yellow 

 Anis, Titouka, and Winter Aport ; 

 which ripen later. The varieties such 

 as Red Astrachan, Alexander, Mcintosh 

 Red, Pewaukee, Ben Davis, Fameuse, 

 Mann, etc., which have been often 

 styled " Iron-clad," are stated to be not 

 anything like ironclad. To the above 

 named Russian apples the writer adds 

 Wealthy and Scott's Winter as per- 

 fectly hardy in the coldest parts of 

 New England ; likewise Walbridge and 

 Wolf River. 



Of Pears, he says Clapp's Favoritt- 

 and Flemish Beauty, and some others, 

 not named, which have for the past 

 seven years seemed to be unharmed, 

 ai^e this season dead or dying ; but of 

 his dozen or more sorts fi'om Eastei'i! 

 Europe, not one was injured. He 

 names only two of these, the Besse 

 mianka and Sapieganka. 



Of Cherries, the following have win- 

 tered well, viz. : Double Natte, Griotte 

 du Nord, Lieb, Large Montmorency, 

 and Ostheim. 



Of Plums, the writer says, " last 

 winter was a scorcher for Moore's 

 Arctic, all my trees are badly hurt ; ' 



